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captor

[ US /ˈkæptɝ/ ]
[ UK /kˈæptɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who captures and holds people or animals

How To Use captor In A Sentence

  • An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor.
  • The one dramatic moment in the film, when Wayne tries to escape from his captors, is a let-down, and it doesn't last nearly as long as one would hope.
  • Just before he was guillotined he made a speech vowing that he would return from the dead to punish his captors.
  • Save for the rifles, there appeared to be no difference between exhausted captive and wearied captor.
  • He frustrated and defied them at every turn and encouraged other captors to do the same.
  • An extension of this may occur when the victim actually, becomes a supporter or advocate of her captor.
  • The ship and cargo are taken into a port of the captor; the contraband is condemned in a prize court, but the fate of the ship itself varies. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists”
  • Spectacularly, he is thrown by his captors over the side of the bridge and caught to dangle on his ropes and chains in mid air.
  • Otherwise, he would live, and that meant eating whatever his captors gave him in meager portions twice a day: fish heads, fish scales, leaves and rice. McDaniel, Norman A.
  • Through a bizarre twist of circumstances, Ame is released by her captors. Minima! Books 2 and 3 » Manga Worth Reading
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